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Picture this: You’re driving through the English Channel Tunnel on
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Analog Daydreams
Tyondai Braxton and Ian Williams of BATTLES, photographed at
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Be Your Own Pet’s
Guide to Nashville, Tennessee
BY COLIN STUTZ
“NASHVILLE’S JUST OF THOSE PLACES YOU CAN’T VISIT FOR A WEEK and immediately know where
the cool people hang out,” says Nathan Vasquez, bassist of Be Your Own Pet. “Anybody cool is already in hiding
from everybody else who’s just a country music freak, or a clone, or some singer-songwriter looking to break on
CMT.” Music City U.S.A., Vasquez’s hometown, just so happens to be home to more musicians than any other
location in the United States—a country music Mecca of Stetson hats, belt buckles and cowboy boots. So how
might a 19-year-old like Vasquez and his punky bandmates kill time in a ’ville like this? For starters, on the group’s
sophomore release, Get Awkward, there are suggestions of drug busts, beer runs and tearing up the town. The
Guide asked Vasquez to elaborate on those notions and play host, showing us where the cool kids kick it while
admiring that Nashville skyline we’ve heard so much about. “It is a big softie town,” says Vasquez, but at least he
says getting a drink shouldn’t be a problem.
Nashville’s best…
…place to get some privacy?
I like going to this theater called the Belcourt. It’s a
pretty good non-profit venue for movies, music and art,
but it’s primarily a movie theater.
…music venue?
Most definitely The End. They’re really cool about letting under-18-year-olds in; all the dudes there are the
friendliest, most awesome guys. It’s just, hands down,
one of the best, trashiest venues ever. It’s pretty gritty
and small, but big enough for a band like Deerhoof to
play. I’ve seen a lot of great shit there. A lot of bands
that would pack out the Bowery usually play The End.
They’ve got the best shows. That’s basically Be Your
Own Pet’s home turf; if we ever book a show for a
friend’s band or try to book a local one for us to headline, The End is where we’ll take it.
…place to do some underage drinking?
A cool thing about Nashville is that there are a
couple of dive bars in town that will actually serve
me. Just because I have some facial hair—I can
grow a moustache—it’s pretty easy for me to go to
a bar and get served. Bars here are pretty laid back.
But Jonas [Stein, guitar] definitely gets some guff
sometimes. There’s also this bowling alley called
Playmore Lanes that’s totally awesome. They will
serve anybody alcohol, no questions asked. That’s
pretty sweet.
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…late night eatery?
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The Hermitage Café. Nashville is very segregated between east and west because we have the
Cumberland River that runs right through our city, so
in the downtown you literally have two different halves.
Once you get over to the Eastside there’s this football
stadium and shit, and just right off the bank of the river
there’s this fucking awesome café.
…record shop?
There’s this record store that’s really sweet called Grimey’s.
My friend Anna works there and she has a real pulse on
not just indie labels but homegrown, do-it-yourself, mailorder stuff. Grimey’s has a really, really obscure selection
of current and classic independent records.
…college radio station?
91.1 WRBU. It’s cheesy, but they play both of the bands
that I’m in, so that’s a plus in my book. The other four
college stations aren’t really college stations as far as
format diversity is concerned; a lot of them are parochial
colleges so there’s a lot of worship stuff on there. WMTU
is really good too because they syndicate this really
fucking awesome radio talk show that I listen to all the
time. It’s pretty much my radio show. It’s a news program
called “Coast to Coast” that’s basically the weirdest,
science-fiction-y talk show ever. All their news is really
kind of scary and about the future. They always get upto-the-minute news on cloning shit and trans-humanism
bionic nanotechnology for future cyborgs. That’s all they
talk about, and people learning the skill of telepathy with
animals; it’s such a cool show…
…nickname for the city?
“Thrashville.” About five or six years ago, when we
were all 13 or 14 and in our first band, we played with
all these touring hardcore bands and there was a website started called “Thrashville.” It had all the hardcore
show listings and stuff, so that was where we would
post our shows online. So the first time I ever heard
Thrashville coined was from this website, started by a
hardcore punk booker.
…place to bury a corpse?
I’d probably just throw it off the interstate into the
Cumberland River. There are dead bodies thrown in
there all the time. F
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Going Semi-Pro with
André Benjamin
BY PAT MCGUIRE
EVEN BEFORE ICE CUBE RAPPED ABOUT HIS EFFORTLESS TRIPLE-DOUBLES on the basketball
court or Shaquille O’Neal became the worst free throw shooter to ever rock a mic, hip-hop and hoops have
been tighter than a pair of Air Jordans with extra syrup. So it makes perfect sense for a rapper-cum-actor like
the cooler-than-ice André “3000” Benjamin to co-star in the new Will Ferrell roundball comedy, Semi-Pro. The
OutKast rapper and budding fashion designer plays Coffee Black, the semi-talented, hotdoggin’ hoopster with a
heart of bling. The film takes place in the 1970’s American Basketball Association golden days, when the spectacle,
promotions and antics outshone any sportiness, practice or athleticism. Here the Guide talks to André about the
link between sport and song, the promotional corndogs and bear-wrasslin’ of the ABAiens, and how visiting the
“Doctor” helped him prepare to go Semi-Pro.
What is it about the close relationship between
hip-hop and basketball?
I think it’s just convenient, you know? Most rappers
come from the ’hood, and it’s a convenient sport. It only
takes one basketball and a few guys to play. And there
are so many players that look like rappers; to a kid, it’s
appealing. Sports and rap go hand-in-hand.
What was your first experience on the basketball court? Did you play ball growing up?
Not really. I’m not a good basketball player. I played a
little bit as a kid with my dad, and then I played with
the guys in the neighborhood behind the church, but I
never played for an organized team or anything.
Do you think any athletes cite you as a style
influence? There are a lot of flashy dudes in
the NBA.
Athletes are just flashy. Most of them are big, so they
get tailors to make those big suits. And a lot of times it’s
just them telling the tailors what colors they want.
Do you have a tailor?
I have people that I work with when I’m designing stuff
to make it happen. It just depends on what city I’m in.
Are you talking about your clothing line, or
stuff for you to wear personally?
We’ve seen this before with you, wearing the
football shoulder pads in the “Rosa Parks”
OutKast video. Are you gonna break out some
pads for your fall line?
[Laughs] Nah, ’cause you can’t wear them on the
street!
I couldn’t, but I bet you could. So, how big a
sports fan are you?
I’m mainly a football fan, to be honest with you; not a
big basketball fan. But I actually talked to Dr. J before
we started filming Semi-Pro.
Did you know about Dr. J before that?
Oh yeah, for sure. As a child, you knew Dr. J because he
was considered one of the greats. He was kinda Michael
Jordan before Jordan. I wanted to hear his input on
what it was like to be an actual ABA player back in that
time. He had a lot of good words about how it was to
be an African-American on a sports team in the ’70s.
There was still a lot of racism going on. He said a lot
of the things were about freedom and rebellion—the
afros and all that.
Both. A lot of times I end up putting the samples I’ve
made for myself into production for the line. It’s called
“Benjamin Bigsby,” in stores this fall. And it’s funny; the
first line was inspired by sports. Jackets, blazers, denim
shirts, leather coats, top coats…all inspired by early
American football.
Were you old enough to watch him play on
TV?
Like with the leather helmets?
Not really. The NBA was considered pretty safe and
clean before Dr. J and the ABA brought a lot of the slick
moves and slammin’. There wasn’t even a three-point
Yeah, from that time. You’ll see some of the original
strip jerseys, with the sticky strips on them that used to
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hold the ball. It’s from that university era; the MichiganNotre Dame and the Army-Navy rivalry times in the
early 1900’s.
No. I was born in ’75. They shut the league down years
before I was even born.
Did you know about the ABA before you
started on this film?
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Semi-Pro really plays that up a lot, with the
pregame antics and promotions; you wearing
a seahorse costume. That all came from the
ABA, right?
Yeah, they were trying to make it a business. They knew
they didn’t have the funding like the NBA at the time.
And these were teams that would be playing in high
school gyms sometimes, with only a couple people in
the stands. But there were uniforms, there were organized teams—they traveled. They did everything they
could to get people to the games.
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As a one-time struggling musician, can you
relate to that—trying to get anybody out to
the shows, in any way possible? And once
you get ’em there, you’ve gotta make ’em
remember it?
Yeah, that’s definitely true. But it’s different, because
you don’t have a stage to do antics until you “get there.”
And you can’t say, “I’m wrasslin’ a bear tonight, so come
check out our concert.” You pretty much had to just
make good music and hope they’d come.
Corndogs and hip-hop don’t really go together
too well, do they?
Nah, they don’t! [Laughs]
say, “Hey, let’s reach out and see if I can do something with Will Ferrell.” We found out Will was working
on Semi-Pro, and that there was a role I could audition for. So I went in and auditioned. But Talledega
Nights… [Laughs] It was funny, man. I loved it.
I thought the football scenes looked authentic. A
lot of times when you see these films, it never really
works. Or, it’s not believable. Al Pacino is a realistic
coach. And even the team members and the way
the uniforms looked and fit—it all looked real. It’s
kinda crazy that Oliver Stone made that movie, too.
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It’s a good documentary that I watched before we
shot our movie. It talks about the whole ABA.
I can’t remember if that was the title. It was another
basketball movie. It’s about this 1970’s basketball
team. And, if I’m not mistaken, I think Dr. J is in it.
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That was the movie that made me go to my agent and
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shot before the ABA. If the ABA wasn’t around, we’d
be watching a different game.
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That’s one of my favorites, for nostalgic reasons.
I’m really big into styling, and I thought that was a
nicely-styled movie… I think that’s about it for my
sports film vocabulary.
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always watching over us
STIRS THE MELTING POT
TWO GENERATIONS AND MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS
removed from his Sicilian grandparents’ passage through the protocols of Ellis
Island, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata carries all the transatlantic baggage and New
World wonderment of a man freshly discharged from the ship. When he toes
the microphone stand with a frock of statically-charged petroleum-black chest
hair, clutches a cheap bottle of red wine and trills between French, Spanish
and English, he makes good on the adjectival mess of a genre he’s coined for
himself and his three bandmates: “Gypsy-immigrant-carnival-wedding.”
It may sound gimmicky for a west-of-middle
American indie rock band, but DeVotchKa’s
European essentials—polka syncopation, flamenco guitar, bazouki and sousaphone—are,
in fact, natural touchstones. “We all have that
in our roots... You probably do too if you look
back far enough,” says Urata in a jet-lagged
voice on the phone from Madrid, where the
four Denverites recently arrived to entertain
packed houses in advance of their fourth
full-length, A Mad and Faithful Telling, to be
released this spring on Anti-.
The band dug straight through the topsoil
of its roots before foraying into the long-player
format. Early on, it camped near the proverbial red lights of burlesque, musicalizing neopinup doll Dita Von Teese’s national circuit of
Eastern European-inspired fetishism. Things
grew more thoughtful by 2004’s How It Ends.
On that album, Urata sang from the vantage
point of a ranchero returning from war to find
his fortune depleted and his wife deceitful.
Conceptually, A Mad and Faithful Telling is
an inversion of that narrative. After spending
intermittent chunks of the last decade on the
road and abroad, Urata says he can imagine
the unease his grandparents must’ve experienced as they crossed the pond; something
contemporary immigrants still experience
today as they try to traverse the virtual fence
along the southern border. “When you leave
behind your loved ones to get in a little van
and go on tour, it sometimes feels like you’re
never going to see them again,” he says.
“Who’s watching over them? Who’s watching
these people I’m working for?”
DeVotchKa used to work on its own freespirited terms. 2003’s Una Volta carried a
seemingly counterintuitive warning label on
its back cover: “Unauthorized duplication of
this record is encouraged.” Now, attached to
a label for the first time, Urata has gained
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some perspective on the recording industry (“as much
as independence is satisfying, it’s also hampering”), but
doesn’t rescind the band’s open invitation to pirates. “In
this day and age no one has to be encouraged to copy a
CD,” he says. “Our parents are even doing it.”
Some of DeVotchKa’s recent ascendency comes
from the mainstream star power of the hit 2006 film,
Little Miss Sunshine, a black comedy bought for $10
million at the Sundance Film Festival. When the band
received a Grammy nod for the film score, which
was compiled from pre-existing material and some
tinkering in the studio with composer Mychael Danna
(Capote), Urata was ready to stake his claim on financial solvency.
“People who cared about me always tried to warn me
about how poor I would be if I tried to be a musician, since
I come from a long line of them,” he says. “And they were
right. It has been a long road and I have gotten myself into
some really degrading situations to make a buck.”
But sonic output is what counts, anyway, and A Mad
and Faithful Telling continues to deliver DeVotchKa’s
expansive, eclectic sound. Tom Hagerman’s virtuoso
violin often dices through the foreground, while Jean
Schroder’s tuba rises in the back like a slow-motion,
low-end tide. At its best, on tracks such as “Along
the Way” and “Undone,” Urata’s tenor reaches an
Orbisonian vibrato that can break through the iciest
Eustachian tubes; at its subtlest, it offers the camp of
Chris Isaak, debauched and philandering at a bridal
reception in Bucharest. Amid warm, staccato organ
notes on “Transliterator,” his call-and-response lyrics
cathartically overlap. “I never get anywhere / I get the
space in between,” he sings with the force of an entire
family tree of vocalists.
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This kinetic movement is a testament to Urata’s restlessness. Like a million others, he says he’s fed up with all
the arrogance the U.S. government has projected toward
the world at large during the past eight years; after all, his
grandparents didn’t leave Europe to fan the flames of an
even more threatening empire. Yet he isn’t prepared to
expatriate, let alone leave Denver. Pragmatism reigns in
the sanctuary city. “I’m not going to give up on America,”
he says. “I tell you, the temptation’s there, but I don’t feel
like it would do justice if I just ran away. I think about how
hard everybody worked to get me here. To run away is to
give up on this great experiment.”
“It’s an easier way of life in Denver,” he continues.
“I’ve surrounded myself with a circle of friends and
family. It’s cheap to maintain a band, not like L.A. or
New York, where you have to pay an exorbitant amount
for practice space. And if you forget to lock your door,
it’s not the worst thing in the world.”
Occasionally, despite his diverse family background,
Urata’s safety—the sovereignty of his comfort zone—is
threatened by a language barrier. On an early-morning
public radio show in Madrid a few days after he and DeVotchKa touched down, for instance, he had to filter his
broken Spanish through a translator. “I can’t keep up
with those guys,” he says of native speakers. When the
band returns from its Spanish mini-tour, he can resume
life at his own Anglicized pace, or at least until it’s time to
roll out stateside publicity for the new album. And as he
exits the front door of his modest Denver digs, he’ll step
onto East Colfax, the longest street in America, catch his
breath amid the commutes of Gypsies and Gentiles, and
perhaps be reminded that trotting out success in any
corner of the world is a long, intergenerational project.
It’s not easy to rise above the melting pot. F
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The Duke Spirit’s Angle of Repose
BY SAM ROUDMAN
WITH ARTISTS TODAY RISING AND FALLING at
the speed of wi-fi, it’s downright refreshing to find a band
developing the old fashioned way: write, record, tour, and
then repeat. Four years ago, The Duke Spirit emerged
from Britain with an impressive EP and an exultant live
show that earned them some chattering clamor and the
chance to record a full-length. Heavy on atmosphere,
the band’s first album was a live-sounding (if confined)
affair; the combination of its deep, buzzing guitars and
lead singer Leila Moss’ sultry rumblings and soulful howls
earned comparisons to Mazzy Star, Bjork, and The Jesus
and Mary Chain. Now, with a few years of “band life”
notched on their belts, the Spirit sojourned with producer
Chris Goss (Queens of the Stone Age) to SoCal’s Joshua
Tree National Park and Goss’ Rancho de la Luna Studios
and emerged with something grand, lush and no less
haunting. The resultant album, Neptune, delivers from
directions unforeseen, with the group adding campfire
laments and soulful girl-group torchbearing to their repertoire of skuzzy garage-slinking. Aided by keys, horns, and
the open, inspirational desert sky, Neptune sounds like the
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musical equivalent of a shamanistic vision quest.
What was the recording process like for this
album as opposed to the previous one?
Ollie Betts: We’d done recordings in England where
it’s quite sterile; you’re there to work, and you almost
feel like you’re going into surgery. This was the polar
opposite; it was like you go and hang out at a house in
the desert and you have a BBQ and a bunch of people
are coming by, and you record an album, too.
Leila Moss: Compared to the clinical environments
that you could make albums in—like when you’re
loaded with money—it was such a treat. We could have
been in some really expensive place with no windows
and an air conditioner, so formal and sanitized, but
Rancho de la Luna is the opposite of that. It’s all about
life and drinking and laughing and talking and playing
music together; it all morphs into one.
How much time did you have to finish it?
Leila: The actual recording was six weeks. I suppose there
was a week practicing and chatting about it, so really, it was
five weeks of playing and getting it down. We squeezed it
all in. We’d managed to finish early in the afternoon of our
last day there, so we actually got to sit back and play it at
Rancho de la Luna. If we had something that was a little
wrong, or if there was one last thing to do, we wouldn’t
quite have made it. But we ran out, bought some drinks,
and played it very loud.
How long did the material gestate before you
recorded?
Toby Butler: At least a year. Some of the songs were
very new, but they’d all sat around for some time. Some
we were very strict about and wanted them to go down
in a certain way, but other songs we took and asked
Chris about their various parts.
Leila: The best example of that was “Dog Roses”;
we loved the melody and there were things about it
that were great, but we couldn’t feel like we’d done it
justice. Chris said, “I think we should work with it as a
basic loop of a rhythm and just layer it up.” And it man-
aged to create this big, haunting space.
The album’s atmosphere is a step up from
your previous work.
Toby: That’s why we wanted to work with Chris Goss,
to get that weird eeriness.
Leila: That song, that mysticism and that space
reflects what it is to be out under the stars in Joshua
Tree. It’s beautiful and colorful, but you can see that
all in the distance and you know there’s not a fucker
around, so there’s a slight feeling of dangerous
isolation.
Ollie: When we were recording, someone would walk
outside and see the most amazing shooting star. I’d definitely like to record in that environment again.
Leila: Look—we’re a rock and roll band and we record
in the desert; we’re hardened punks. But every third song
you can take a breath and look skyward, and there’s a
moment—a moment of repose. I think that’s what our
album is about. Moments when you can look up and see
the expansive sky and the Milky Way. F
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NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS
The Assassination of Jesse James…
94%
[soundtrack]
MUTE
Filled with longing and regret, the
Cave-Ellis combo delivers a score that
makes cowboy-killing sweet again.
NICK LOWE
93%
Jesus of Cool [reissue]
YEP ROC
Guitar pop, country rock, bubblegum,
punk, reggae and funk, all mashed into one
brilliantly tasteful record. Jesus, that’s cool.
THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL
ORCHESTRA & TRA-LA-LA BAND
13 Blues for Thirteen Moons 78%
CONSTELLATION
By the time you finish reading the
band’s name, you might be too irritated
to actually listen to its hour-long LP.
THE RAVEONETTES
92%
Lust Lust Lust
VICE
Dark dark dark Danish Danish Danish
rock rock rock, love love love sick sick
sick lullabies lullabies lullabies!!!
LADYHAWK
76%
Shots
JAGJAGUWAR
The dirty ’hawks clean up a little too
nicely with uninspired songwriting and
sanitary Southern rock.
BORN RUFFIANS
89%
Red, Yellow and Blue
WARP
No, this isn’t the leftovers from some
beat-up box of crayons, but the debut from
three Canadian indie-pop party starters.
DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN
75%
Eleventh Hour
DEFINITIVE JUX
If Del wants to slow his flow instead
of keeping with the times, the champ
will be fighting bouts with one arm tied
behind his back.
THE GUTTER TWINS
88%
Saturnalia
SUB POP
Lanegan and Dulli make Strange Days
without all that “Love Me Two Times” crap.
LOS CAMPESINOS!
87%
Hold On Now, Youngster
ARTS + CRAFTS
A roller coaster ride through a roboticthemed carnival, gushing with breakneck
beats and whiplash pop. Kids these days…
BAUHAUS
85%
Go Away White
ANTIExtravagant, treacherous and cocksure:
The sound of rock and roll’s last shred of
hope waving goodbye.
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ALBUM
RATINGS
THE RUBY SUNS
83%
Sea Lion
SUB POP
The Kiwis serve a charming slice of
whirled-world music with fits of gurgled
chants and squeaky psychedelica.
91-100%
81-90%
71-80%
61-70%
Below 60%
8
8
8
8
8
a great album
above par, below genius
respectable, but flawed
not in my CD player
please God, tell us why
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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
71%
Heretic Pride
4AD
Fidgeting and grasping for a musical
footing that they never quite find, these
are more like Great Plains Goats.
THE SWORD
70%
Gods of the Earth
KEMADO
With metal clichés and dull creativity,
The Sword makes the poor decision to
stay off the cutting edge.
GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY
66%
Robotique Majestique
TRASHY MOPED
Hurried urgency and prolonged
instrumentals—don’t observe this unexciting
build towards a vacuous black hole.
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FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
88%
Flight of the Conchords
SUB POP
Only months after releasing their
Grammy-winning EP, The Distant
Future, New Zealand comedy-music duo Flight of the
Conchords drops yet another gem from their genrebending, lyrical-parodying talons. The latest installment
contains 14 studio-recorded favorites—all of which can
be heard on the first season of their HBO series—such
as the ode to marital romance, “Business Time,” and
“Foux du Fafa,” a hilarious homage to French pop and
Parisian eating habits. Produced by Mickey Petralia
(Midnight Vultures), this is one album that’s not only
funny, but a quality piece of musicianship in its own
right. PATRICK STRANGE
R.E.M.
92%
Accelerate
WARNER
R.E.M., where have you been? Are you
the same band who, just a few short
years ago, sang about New York and how cool sunshine
really can get? Are you the same group that decided it
was a good idea to make an album without a drummer
and with a lead singer wearing eyeliner? No? I didn’t
think so. This is the R.E.M. I remember: a band with
attitude that isn’t afraid to play guitars. Accelerate is
relentless; Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi
immediately come to mind. Well done, guys…it’s good
to have you back. DARREN SPROLES
M83
79%
Saturdays = Youth
MUTE
There’s nothing culturally appealing
about referencing John Hughes movies
unless you’ve simply never grown up. But professional
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JOE NICK PATOSKI
Willie Nelson: An Epic Life 89%
LITTLE, BROWN AND CO.
If there are any living legends
still performing regularly on the
American stage, Willie Nelson is
one of them. From the country music icon’s early
days in Nashville to his run-ins with the law and
the IRS, Joe Nick Patoski has an eye for detail in
this nearly 500-page biography. However, the book
truly sings when the attention is diverted from
Willie’s off-stage antics and directed to where it
should be: on the songs that made Willie Nelson
one of the most influential country musicians of
our time. PATRICK STRANGE
TAPES ’N TAPES
83%
Walk It Off
XL
Tapes’ first record didn’t make a grand
entrance to the party. No one knew
who brought her, but everyone made sure to know
her at the next soiree. With the second effort, Walk It
Off, people aren’t just expecting her to show up, but
anticipating her to make the evening an absolute hit.
For a lesser band, that expectation could have resulted
in a self-conscious wallflower. Instead, the Minneapolis
foursome fashions a lo-fi sophisticate who wears her
influences (Pavement, Grandaddy) on her sleeve and
exudes a fuzzy warmth that every guest wants to get
near. PATRICK JAMES
WHISKEYTOWN
Stranger’s Almanac
85%
[deluxe edition]
GEFFEN/UME/MOOD FOOD/OUTPOST
It’s a shitty thing to stiff the barman, but
sometimes you need to hear a song more than he needs
a dollar. Every joint with a jukebox should be required
to stock Stranger’s Almanac, because this soul-baring
alt.country is the perfect complement to heartbreak
and misery. The deluxe edition is worth skimping on
tips because it bolsters the original LP with a slew of
unreleased live tracks, acoustic takes and demos that
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YkY
92%
Control
WEINSTEIN CO.
Everything about Anton Corbijn’s
astounding film shines in
black and white, much like his
legendary photos of Joy Division
from the early ’80s. The dreary
Manchester atmosphere, the band’s electrifying
post-punk, and of course, Ian Curtis’ brilliant life
and far-too-abrupt demise, all resonate better
in monochrome. Sam Riley, instead of acting,
actually becomes the martyr frontman as he
conjures “Transmission” one final time with his
mates. Extras include commentary by Corbijn
and extended performance scenes authentically
executed by the cast. KYLE MACKINNEL
KILLING JOKE [REISSUES]
92%
Fire Dances
Night Time
92%
Brighter than a Thousand Suns 85%
Outside the Gate
73%
CAROLINE / EMI
Killing Joke wasn’t just a band, but the sonic
embodiment of a brutal consumer-age
disdain seeking salvation through antiWestern cultural plundering. And these
remasterings only serve to further focus
that nascent power. Third album Fire
Dances is the group’s masterpiece, its fury
coalescing into an apocalypse of thrashing
guitars and relentless tribal drumming.
The flawless Night Time became the band’s
signature album, with a modernist sheen
added to the thundering undercurrent.
Brighter follows it sonically, but is darker
in mood; the Joke becoming enveloped
in ennui and emotional intensity. But unfortunately, the
confused, experimental mess that was Outside the Gate is
really more of interest to curiosity seekers. All have extras,
from Fire Dances’ explosive Peel Sessions to various
b-sides, dub mixes and some surprising unreleased tracks
on Brighter. KEN SCRUDATO
SUN KIL MOON
87%
April
CALDO VERDE
One would be hard-pressed to find
a contemporary musician as emotive
as Mark Kozelek. On April, the former Red House
Painter’s second original release as Sun Kil Moon,
Kozelek returns to feed our ears with seas of acoustic
guitars, slides and percussion. But in true form, it’s his
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COLIN MELOY
89%
Colin Meloy Sings Live!
KILL ROCK STARS
The Decemberists’ frontman Colin
Meloy is to indie what Dave Matthews
is to hippie-pop, because when his bandmates aren’t
up for a tour, he just heads out on his own to
entertain bespectacled intellectuals and toe-tapping
hipsters across the land. Though you occasionally
miss the flourish of an accordion or an organ, his
considerable catalog sounds quite fetching when
rendered with only a voice and an acoustic guitar.
The band may be at home with cups of hot tea and
a stack of good books, but the show is definitely still
going on. Bravo! NEVIN MARTELL
atmospherist Anthony Gonzalez, aka M83, has curiously
been nostalgic for an age he barely could have known
(he’s 26 years old) and the resulting record is relentlessly
bewitching, but not quite to the level of his previous
efforts. Though there’s no denying this chap can make
gorgeously wistful music, Saturday’s fluffy synths and
dreamy vocals reek a little too much of Molly Ringwald’s
record collection. KEN SCRUDATO
are mini classics in their own right. But sorry guys,
all the bourbon in the world isn’t worth one listen of
“Everything I Do.” NEVIN MARTELL
lyricism that is most absorbing. Lending their voices
are Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for
Cutie) and Eric Pollard of Retribution Gospel Choir,
who help to make this batch of songs trance-inducing
and beautiful. COLIN STUTZ
GOOD SHOES
81%
Good Shoes
BRILLE
Seriously, the London-based four piece
Good Shoes has the sweet allure of new
kicks. With tight, glassy vocals and clean, consciouslycompeting instruments (like the lead and rhythm guitar
on “Sophia”), these pop New Wave kids prove fresh.
Unfortunately, though, not unlike your new Nikes,
Wing Tips, or, um…penny loafers, these dudes still
need some street time. So walk it out, boys; however
clean the instrumentation—Think Before You Speak is
structurally repetitive. AJ PACITTI
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RAINBOW SIX VEGAS 2
85%
PS3, XBOX 360
UBISOFT
Vegas 2 is a definite winner. More
weapons (and re-tweaked old
ones) make your gun choice more
important than ever. Cover is more fragile, so
camping behind a slat of plywood will no longer
protect you. The story isn’t important because
gunning people down is a universal joy. The
revamped achievement system will feel like Call
of Duty 4, which isn’t a bad thing if you’ll level
up for hitting numerous tactical milestones. Both
single and multiplayer modes will keep you busy
for a long while. ZACH ROSENBERG
group’s musicianship has improved since its 2006
debut—especially considering the guitar work—but it’s
questionable whether this has proved beneficial. While
there was once something modest and sweet about
these jaunty tune-fulls of cheer, this batch of songs just
isn’t as tasty as the last. But for fans, a sample might still
be in order. COLIN STUTZ
YkY
Burn to Shine–
86%
Seattle, WA
TRIXIE
Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty
built his Burn to Shine project to
look a lot like the expired space
that houses it. The rooms have
been emptied, faucets disconnected and the
structure prepped for demolition. The film is also
stripped down—devoid of DVD menus, fancy
lighting or overdubs. Thanks to guest curator Ben
Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, naked tracks
from Seattle artists like Tiny Vipers, Eddie Vedder
and The Cave Singers cathartically ring against
the house’s aged-oak frame—paint chips exposed
and all. KYLE MACKINNEL
THE MICROPHONES
92%
The Glow (Part 2) [reissue]
K
The Glow (Part 2) is seminal to the
indie world. K always produced quality
records, but prior to this release preached only to the
devoted. Phil Elvrum’s Beach Boys-esque harmonies
touched everyone—and for good reason—and all those
who awaited the return of Brian Wilson and loved the
lo-fi Hood got it…and the bonus disc here is even
better. This was the first bedroom album that spread
beyond its state of origin; beyond its continent and then
some. JONATHAN FALCONE
THE PINKER TONES
82%
Wild Animals
NACIONAL
Do you know how to spell “Sexy Robot”?
I do. As do the fine folks in The Pinker
Tones—they spell it out a couple dozen times in “S.E.X.Y.
R.O.B.O.T.” But once you get past the ridiculously
repetitive lyrics (a frequent occurrence) and the lack of
substance, there’s actually some style here. The Tones are
from Barcelona and they make dancey, pop-electronica
with mild world influences thrown in for good measure.
They’re at least worth a solid listen before you say
N.E.X.T. JEREMY MOEHLMANN
FOALS
80%
Antidotes
SUB POP
Dance rock might be in its twilight,
but that sunset is dispersing in all sorts
of bizarre hues as Oxford’s Foals demonstrate here.
The bass lines are grounding constants, but the guitars
are a twitchy expert accumulation of chromaticisms,
touching on African figures and vocal rounds indebted
to a clean take on post-hardcore. The hyper-tech vibe
will remind many of Battles, but these lads aren’t nearly
so robotically inclined. SAM ROUDMAN
THE KOOKS
84%
Bonk
ASTRALWERKS
Back for another taste of Brit-pop
stardom, Konk shows a band
meandering through an awkward phase. Yes, the
SHE & HIM
86%
Volume One
MERGE
Despite their ambiguity, She & Him
aren’t as mysterious as they think.
She’s bright-eyed actress Zooey Deschanel (last heard
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caroling with Will Ferrell in Elf ) and Him is postPost-War M. Ward. Volume One carries its inspirations
from vintage A.M. gold, featuring She on blue-eyed
soul vocals while Him lends twangy guitar lines.
It’s an unexpected pairing that works—especially
on the Motown cover “You’ve Really Got a Hold
on Me”—with hopefully many more volumes to
follow. BREANNA MURPHY
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BRUCE WILLIAMS AND
DONNELL ALEXANDER
Rollin with Dre: The Unauthorized
83%
Account
RANDOM HOUSE
Penned by Dr. Dre’s confidant
in all things hip-hop and hollow-point, Bruce
Williams lets the cat out of the bag in this allaccess account of what it means to hang with the
master of Chronic. Nurtured in rural Louisiana
and ghetto-tested on the streets of Los Angeles,
Williams writes about Dre’s early days with
N.W.A., the creation and demise of Death Row
Records, and all the sex, drugs and drive-bys
you’ve come to expect from the West Coast rap
scene. PATRICK STRANGE
CLINIC
87%
Do It!
DOMINO
I went to a Clinic show about a year
ago and was so creeped out by the
experience, I eventually walked out. Everything from
its severity to those hideous surgical masks pissed me
off. Nevertheless, Do It! is a fascinating departure from
the expected. Its weird sense of tension is not lost, but
peppered amongst beautiful and utterly psychedelic
(check “Free Not Free”) melodies that marry ’70s
vintage sounds to modern malaise. In the end, the latest
album is utterly unforgettable. KENDAH EL-ALI
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Tom Clancy’s EndWar
90%
PS3
UBISOFT
Voice command hits a new level in
your control over one of the three
participants in World War III: Russia, U.S.A. or
Europe. Move your army across the globe (and
see it at street-level) as you yell commands to your
units—the best way to compensate for the lack
of keyboard and mouse in an RTS. Elements of
strategy meet console multiplayer, as your units
move to capture waypoints on each battlefield;
the more waypoints you control, the stronger your
forces. Oh, and there’s nukes. Lots and lots of
nukes. ZACH ROSENBERG
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